Services Programming: Detention and Program Renewal

services programming: According to a tender notice posted on a government website by Canada Border Services Agency, the successful bidder must also be able to enforce bail conditions, offer substance abuse programs, provide accommodation and hook up clients with jobs and education, according to Toronto Star. The CBSA has been engaged in discussion with stakeholders on program renewal for alternatives to detention, said CBSA spokeswoman Line Guibert-Wolff. By Nicholas Keung Immigration reporter Mon., Aug. 1, 2016 Wanted: An operator who can supervise migrants released from detention. Our goal is to identify non-government areas of interest and expertise that may be able to provide enhanced alternatives to detention in the form of community-based services and programming. More than 50 immigration detainees at Lindsay Central East Correctional Centre and Toronto East began a hunger strike on July 11 demanding a meeting with Goodale. Public Safety Minister Ralph Goodale has been under fire in recent months after a series of deaths of detainees held in immigration custody, including Chilean Francisco Javier Romero Astroga, 39, at Maplehurst Correctional Complex in Milton; Melkioro Gahungu, 64, a Burundian migrant at Toronto East Detention Centre, and an unnamed 24-year-old man in Edmonton Remand Centre. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.